This book explores the period from World War I through the 1920s in order to answer the question: did a financial "bubble" form, and if so, could it have been anticipated? Using new data and over 100 years of stock market returns, real-life models used by investors and modern research, the...

Volume I. The advent of modern public borrowing -- Volume II. The Washington Consensus and its critics -- Volume III. The role of fiscal policy -- Volume IV. Market microstructure, creditor action and contagion.

"This new four volume collection gathers together the key literature from the field of Infrastructure Finance from the past 20 years. Organized thematically, and drawing on a range of disciplines, the collection will discuss economic principles and policy, explore project financing,...